Top 50 Sustainability Startup Investors in Finland in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sustainability startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sustainability companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Sustainability Startup Investors in Finland in January 2025
Investor | Sustainability Finland investments |
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Lifeline Ventures | 11 |
Finnvera Venture Capital | 9 |
Tesi | 7 |
Business Finland | 7 |
Butterfly Ventures | 6 |
Nidoco | 4 |
Springvest | 3 |
Superhero Capital | 3 |
Ali Omar | 3 |
Mika Ihamuotila | 3 |
Übermorgen Ventures | 2 |
Emerald Technology Ventures | 2 |
Heraeus | 2 |
Redstone.VC | 2 |
Stephen Industries | 2 |
Valve Ventures | 2 |
Mikael Hed | 2 |
Maki.vc | 2 |
UB FIGG | 2 |
Risto Siilasmaa | 2 |
Halton Ventures | 2 |
True Ventures | 2 |
David Helgason | 2 |
Leena Niemistö | 2 |
Bragiel Brothers | 2 |
Voima Ventures | 2 |
Sitra | 2 |
Wave Ventures | 2 |
Innovestor | 2 |
Inventure | 2 |
PC Rettig & CO Impact | 2 |
Renaldas Zioma | 1 |
Granström Mari | 1 |
Taaleri Bioindustry | 1 |
Mikko Rannila | 1 |
Finow | 1 |
Moomin Characters | 1 |
Lakan Betoni | 1 |
European Circular Bioeconomy Fund | 1 |
Aleksander Leonard Larsen | 1 |
Cherry Ventures | 1 |
Kiilto Ventures | 1 |
Sebastien Borget | 1 |
Aura Group | 1 |
GenZero | 1 |
Invus | 1 |
Jonathan Oppenheimer | 1 |
2C Ventures | 1 |
KIMPA - Impact Investing | 1 |
Vesa Puttonen | 1 |
Lifeline Ventures Oy is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, growth capital, and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare, games, web based and general high technology sectors. It seeks to invest in Finland with a few investments made outside Finland as well. The firm targets investing between €0.5 million ($0.66million) and €1 million ($1.32 million). It seeks make inception to Series A investments. Lifeline Ventures Oy was founded in November 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Louhe — Enabling Data-Driven Security Culture With Explainable AI. LOUHE recognises anomalies and creates smart situational awareness with explainable artificial intelligence.
- In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridges the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.
- In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridges the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.
Finnvera makes direct investments in early-stage enterprises through Seed Fund Vera Ltd. Finnvera's goal is to cover shortcomings existing on the market between product development funding and private equity investments. Finnvera does not compete with private financiers; instead, it strives to supplement the financial market.Finnvera'sinvestments enable, start and accelerate growth and internationalisation among investment targets. Enterprises are developed to make them attractive targets for further financing by other investors and industrial actors. Investments are made in technology enterprises at an early stage and in technology-intensive or innovative service enterprises that have potential for developing into international growth enterprises.Finnvera is also known as a specialised financing company owned by the State of Finland. It provides its clients with loans, guarantees, venture capital investments and export credit guarantees.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Enfuce — Unlock growth with our card issuing solutions. Our expertise in issuer processing can turn your ambitious vision into a reality.
- Nordcloud — Nordcloud is a European leader in public cloud infrastructure solutions and cloud-native application services. Since 2011 we have completed more than 500 deployments to help our enterprise customers gain the maximum benefits of the cloud, including security, agility, scalability and overall cost-savings.
- Aurealis Pharma — Multi-target cell and gene therapies for unmet medical needs. Developing therapies for chronic wounds, cancer and inflammatory diseases.
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd is a government-owned investment company. It invests the proceeds accrued from the privatisation of state-owned companies in stimulating the growth and internationalisation of Finnish businesses.Finnish Industry Investment invests in venture capital funds and directly in growth companies, together with privateco-investors. The targets are in all sectors. Capital investments are needed for financing the growth of investee companies, and for spin-offs, major industrial investments, and sector and corporate restructurings.The investments of Finnish Industry Investment amount to over MEUR 570
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United States, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Seaber — Seaber is a cloud-based real-time planning, optimisation and communication solution for bulk cargo & vessels. Our solution improves the efficiency of bulk & break bulk charterers, shipowners & brokers through schedule planning and stakeholder communications over the lifecycle of a voyage.
- Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
- TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
Business Finland finances business R&D projects and public research projects at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences. Read more about R&D and business funding.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Grant, Seed, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Serres — Serres provides fluid management, surgical suction system, supply chain management, and medical devices services.
- Grafintec — Grafintec Oy is a Finnish company focused on developing and utilizing carbon technology to produce graphite. Graphite is an essential material in many industries, particularly in energy storage, electronics, and battery technologies, due to its unique properties such as high conductivity, heat resistance, and stability.
- Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made
Butterfly Ventures is a seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics, investing in deep tech, hardware, and hardware interfacing software. The company prefers to get involved with companies early on; 80% of Butterfly Ventures portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of their entry. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever sincethen it has been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. The company has offices in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Hypertype — Smartest email experience ever made.
- Flow Computing — Flow's Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) gives 100X CPU performance for demanding applications, such as locally-hosted AI and general-purpose parallel computing.
- Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made
Nidoco AB is a Swedish investment company whose strategy is to create long-term value through active ownership of public and private companies.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Series B
- Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
- eMabler — We accelerate our customers' business growth by convenience in eMobility with our API-first platform
- TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
The Citizenship Fund started out when the founders of the company discovered in their previous positions that a promising Finnish growth company will spend a great deal of time and energy in arranging financing. A good business idea and a team with excellent team could take months in financial negotiations and the outcome could be a return to thestart-up. At the same time, investors often wanted new types of higher potential investments alongside traditional alternatives.These two challenges were possible by removing the promising growth companies as investors, even for non-traditional venture capital investors. Citizenship wanted to create a service in which the company would be able to capitalize on business quickly and flexibly, but the decision-making business would be left to the company itself. From today's point of view, Springvest's goal is that an increasing number of Finnish investors can get involved in the story of Finnish growth companies and potential success.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Desentum — Allergen immunotherapy that is effective, safe, patient-friendly and approved by the regulatory authorities.
- Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
- Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.
Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Finland, Estonia, Lithuania
Portfolio highlights
- AISPECO — AISPECO systems for aerial inspection, surveying, mapping. Tailored for airplanes, helicopters and drones. Multiple camera and LiDAR options.
- TheStorage — Flexible industrial heat electrification and scalable energy storage. TheStorage offers cost efficient, sustainable grid scale energy storage that can discharge heat, steam or CHP.
- CyberUpgrade — Easily manage ICT compliance audits by tracking controls, handling ever increasing requirements, and sharing policies. Gain control over cyber security measures.
Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Finland, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Themo — Themo's innovation is an algorithm that optimizes the price of exchange electricity and the consumption of electricity. Themo offers an easy and environmentally friendly way to save on electricity consumed by heating.
- GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
- Builderhead — Builderhead is an easy-to-use construction management software that helps owners, developers and general contractors complete construction projects on time and within budget.
Mika Ihamuotila - Board of Directors @ Rovio Entertainment Corporation
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Investment focus
- Sustainability, FinTech, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Naava — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
- Sulapac — Sulapac brings solutions to the global plastic waste problem with biodegradable packaging innovation.Sulapac combines luxury, sustainability, and unlimited design possibilities. Sulapac packages can be manufactured using injection molding, extrusion, and blow molding techniques. Sulapac has comparable properties to plastics and by using Sulapacbarrier coatings water, oil, and oxygen barrier properties can be further improved.
- NoHo Partners — NoHo Partners Plc is a Finnish restaurant group behind approximately 250 restaurants, bars, pubs, nightclubs and entertainment centres. The name derives from the words ‘Nordic Hospitality Partners’, which communicate the key goals, opportunities and strengths of the Group.
We are an early stage VC for climate tech startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Marathon Fusion — The fuel cycle for fusion energy.
- Companion.energy — Companion.energy provides energy management, forecasting and flexibility software to bridge the gap between energy procurement and operations.
- Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency
Emerald Technology Ventures specializes in clean technology venture capital. Founded in 2000, Emerald focuses on the areas of energy, water, and materials. From offices in Zurich, Switzerland and Toronto, Canada, Emerald manages several venture capital funds and venture capital portfolio mandates.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Software, Energy
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, Germany, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Vytal — Start the Packaging Revolution! We are offering smart & reusable To-Go Packaging-as-a-Service to gastronomy clients & consumers.In Germany the consumption of take-away, convenience and delivery food & drinks is responsible for about 281 kilotons of single-use packaging waste for immediate consumption and is growing at double digitrates. Most of the time, To-Go food containers, snack boxes or coffee cups have a very short life-span of only 30 minutes after which they are tossed into trash (or litter parks, beaches & the ocean). This is not only a giant waste of economic resources as each single use costs between 15 and up to 0,60€ for a stable bowl/box with a lid. It is a horrendous waste of environmental resources (wood, water, crude oil, metals & energy) that are used to produce this packaging. Therefore, a single use packaging not weighing more than 30 grams can easily come with an ecological backpack of more than 8 kilograms when taking into account all the resources used in production (material intensities taken from Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy). Looking at GHG emissions, the picture is similarly bleak: Using CO2 emission factors and the detailed material mix of the single-use packaging waste analyzed by NABU (German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union), the 281 thousand tons waste from To-Go consumption generated around 556 thousand tons of CO2 or the equivalent of 195k passenger cars per year (assuming an average distance travelled of 15,000km). With the expected rise of take-away, convenience and delivery food, the related emissions are expected to increase at double digit rates as waste volume is expected to increase and as we saw a shift to plastics relative to cardboard or other materials. While there is a growing awareness of the problem, especially in Germany, there is no scalable solution yet and the commonly used alternative of nature-based & ‘biodegradable’ materials like bagasse or PLA also require many resources for production & transport, and have to be incinerated or go to landfill after use as there is currently no way to compost them.
- Fido Tech — FIDO AI provides innovative water leak detection and management solutions using cutting-edge technology to drive sustainability and efficiency in water systems.
- Keto Software — Strategic portfolio management to steer you through your strategic initiatives in business. Our product Keto AI+ Platform helps you to manage all your OKRs, strategies and Programmes & project portfolios.
Heraeus, the technology group headquartered in Hanau, Germany, is a leading international family-owned portfolio company.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
- Seed, Corporate Round, Series A
- Germany, China, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- CSMH — Compound Semiconductor (Xiamen) Technology Co., Ltd. is an advanced semiconductor manufacturing technology based joint venture company invested from the Korea, China and Singapore, registered in the city of Xiamen, China. We have equipped with advanced semiconductor manufacturing tools including MPCVD, MOCVD, LPCVD, HVPE and high temperature PVDto produce high quality Diamond wafer and AlN template on various substrate including Si, sapphire, and polished diamond. Our mission is to be the most advanced compound semiconductor company in the global market, contributing to the related technology development. We have strong R&D team and actively collaborate with best research group around the world. Currently, we are providing the thermal grade polycrystalline diamond, which can be used as an effective heat sink aims to solve the heat issue in temperature sensitive device, such as power devices, lasers and avalanche photodiodes etc. We also provides wafer scale polished diamond with sub-nanometer RMS surface roughness, which might be suitable for the integration of GaN, GaO and AlN epilayers and devices on Diamond via direct bonding or heteoepitaxy.
- Holosolis — Holosolis contributes to the EU’s goal of local PV module production and curbing global warming. We will build the largest photovoltaic panel factory in Europe.
- Tsubame BHB — Tsubame BHB is a Sales company
The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Finland, France
Portfolio highlights
- DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
- ClimeFi — ClimeFi is the leader specialising in permanent carbon removals (CDRs), partnering with companies to build portfolio of certified CDR assets.
- Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
We fund futurebreakthroughs
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Investment focus
- Apps, Water, Energy
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Fiberwood — Fiberwood is a new eco-friendly wood fiber insulation that can be used for a variety of purposes. Fiberwood has excellent insulating properties, is entirely bio-based, and thus contains no plastic or other fossil-based materials.
- NPHarvest — NPHarvest is a company with expertise in organic waste management, wastewater treatment, and nutrient recovery. NPHarvest is a research project aiming to enable efficient and profitable nitrogen recycling from waste flows to the fertilizer market, utilizing energy-efficient hydrophobic membrane stripping and ballasted sedimentation of phosphoruswith lime.
- Flow Computing — Flow's Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) gives 100X CPU performance for demanding applications, such as locally-hosted AI and general-purpose parallel computing.
Valve Ventures is a Helsinki-based angel and early-stage venture investor.
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Investment focus
- Energy, CleanTech, Oil and Gas
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
- Woodio — Woodio is a digital designing agency.
- Infinited Fiber Company — Infinited Fiber Company is a Finnish biotech founded in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough recycling technology that can turn cellulose-rich raw materials – like cotton-rich textile waste, used cardboard, or wheat or rice straw – into high-quality textile fibers with the look and feel of cotton. The patented technology has been validated byleading brands and is ready to be scaled. Infinited Fiber Company won the Europas 2020 Hottest Sustainability Tech Award, and was listed on the Global 50 to Watch by Cleantech Group in 2019. In 2016 Infinited Fiber Company was selected into WWF’s Climate Solver network. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
Mikael Hed currently works as a Chairman for Yazen. He previously worked at Rovio Entertainment as a CEO. Mikael Hed attended Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Consumer Electronics
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Finland, Sweden, Lithuania
Portfolio highlights
- Naava — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
- CGTrader — Join the fastest-growing 3D model marketplace today!
- Loupedeck — Loupedeck custom consoles offer analog control with digital precision for effortless creative workflow. Shop now with free shipping!
Maki.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm partnering with deep tech & brand-driven startups obsessed with challenging category norms.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
- Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
- Distance Technologies — Distance Technologies seeks to develop glasses-free XR applications
UB Forest Industry Green Growth Fund ("UB FIGG") is a private equity fund investing in companies focused on plastic and other fossil fuel based material replacements, higher value and more efficient use of wood and agricultural raw material side streams and greater use of these raw materials across a wide range of intermediate and enduses.Through its investments, the Fund helps the forest and bio-based industries to create solutions to mitigate climate change. UB FIGG is a signatory of Operating Principles for Impact Management and reports on the environmental and climate impact of its investments.
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Investment focus
- Chemical, Forestry, Recycling
- Funding Round, Series A
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Notpla — We are a combination of designers and chemists, engineers and entrepreneurs. We’re hard to define because what we’re doing hasn’t been done before. We create advanced packaging solutions that disappear, naturally.
- Paptic — Paptic is manufacturing company that revolutionizes environmental new material, wood-based renewable and recyclable products replacing paper and plastic. Paptic Ltd was April 2015. The company is based in Espoo, Finland and employs today 10 persons.
- Nordtreat — Nordtreat produces widely tested and certified flame retardants for wooden construction products. Learn more about environmentally friendly fire protection!
Risto Siilasmaa is the Founder at F-Secure. Risto Siilasmaa attended Aalto University.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- #Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
- Meeshkan — Use Meeshkan to generate and run UI tests from the in-production behavior of your users, providing a flawless product-led growth pipeline for prospects, and reducing churn as you to ship your highest quality releases ever.Regular UI tests take forever to write, guesswork determines the most important tests, and they become out of date in a fewweeks. And manual testing, while more accurate, is the most inefficient use of developer time. Companies who choose not to write UI tests to save time struggle to acquire and retain users. Your UI is the only way users experience your product, so if it fails to delight, they'll fail to convert – or even worse, churn.Meeshkan enhances, and in many cases replaces, the "all hands on deck" pre-release testing with beautifully crafted, uncannily realistic artificial hands.Stop guessing. Test what matters. Release with confidence. Supercharge your growth.
- The Upright Project — Upright enables smarter decision-making for investors, companies and governments by quantifying the net impact of companies.
Halton Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Smart Building, Energy, GreenTech
- Funding Round
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Smart Heating — Smart Heating focus on hybrid heating systems for real estates. Smart Heating implements energy-efficient heating solutions for more than 100 buildings.
- Soletair Power — Soletair Power is a Finnish startup founded in 2016, operating in the fields of Direct Air Capture and power-to-X technology. The company captures CO2 from the air by retrofitting buildings' ventilation systems with carbon capture technology, resulting in low building emissions. Captured carbon dioxide can be mineralized into concrete, storedas pressurized gas or liquid, transported, and used as raw materials to produce synthetic products. In 2020, Wärtsilä, together with Soletair Power and Q-Power, created their first enclosed Power-to-X unit in the world which can produce synthetic methane from air-captured CO2 straight from the Finland pavilion in Expo 2020 Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The company has delivered multiple carbon dioxide capturing units since then to Germany, Finland, and Denmark.
A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Team-GPT — Team-GPT helps companies use any AI model, find the right use cases for it, keep data safe, organize workflows, and track results. It speed up work with pre-made prompts, use cases, and editable AI Pages. Team-GPT is built with enterprise security, privacy, and compliance in mind from day one.
- Chain Cat — Chain Cat is a discount marketplace for local life services. The company has developed a "digital + local life" life empowerment system that covers housing, food, transportation, and apparel, relying on key technologies including big data summary analysis, intelligent screening, and AI clever algorithms.
- Enveda Biosciences — Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California.
David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
- Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
Leena Niemistö
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- #Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
- Vapaus — A circular economy startup Vapaus provides sustainable mobility solutions – Employee benefit bicycles and shared electric vehicles as a ready-to-use serviceWith its services, Vapaus supports customers’ to create and strengthen a better experience of the work community, to save on the costs of commuting and business travels, and to move towardssmarter and more environmentally friendly modes of transport, both at work and in employees’ leisure time.Every kilometer traveled by the Vapaus mobility solution removes carbon dioxide from the air, helping not only the environment but also customers on their way to carbon neutrality. The mission of Vapaus is to be a global leader when it comes to sustainable Corporate Mobility.
- Finnadvance — Finnadvance is an Organ-On-Chip company developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biology such as vascular, lung and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.
Bragiel Brothers is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in seed and Series A rounds.
Dan Bragiel launched the firm in San Francisco, California in 2016.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Finland, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- UpCodes — UpCodes is a comprehensive code compliance platform. Research, collaborate, and calculate code requirements efficiently, all in one place.
- Wunderite — Wunderite is the only digital forms solution built for insurance agents by agents. Wunderite makes PDFs, Supplementals, and ACORDs easy for producers, Account managers, and customers, by putting them online, and making any question assignable with the click of a button, on any device. Additionally, we save time by enriching (auto-filling) customer data.
- Inspectify — If you are looking to buy or sell a home, Inspectify helps you find the best home inspectors in your area.
Voima Ventures’ mission is to solve major global problems by combining science, entrepreneurship, and value adding capital. They shed light on the ideas and technology which require time and courage to build. Industry domains include bio and new materials, medical technologies and life sciences, imaging and optics, IoT and electronics, robotics,software & ICT and AI. In addition, Voima Ventures has invested in more than 30 deep tech startups, including companies like Solar Foods, Infinited Fiber Company, and Dispelix. Cornerstone investors are VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and European Investment Fund (EIF), backed by Finnish private and institutional investors.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- NADMED — The standard of NAD measuring
- Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
- Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.
Sitra is the venture capital investment arm of Sitra specializing in investments in seed, start-ups, early stage opportunities, and other funds. The firm invests through its three programmes namely, Health Care Programme, the Food and Nutrition Programme, and the Environmental Programme. Within the Health Care Programme, investments are focused oncompanies engaged in paper-free health care, seamless services, decentralised specialised health care, and support services. Within the Food and Nutrition Programme, investments are made in enterprises engaged in the food and nutrition sector, including value-adding upgrading of raw materials and new applications and service concepts in food and nutrition technology.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
- Funding Round, Series A, Series C
- Finland, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Naava — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
- NaturVention — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
- SET Ventures — Venture capital firm focused on digital technologies for a carbon-free energy system
Founded in 2016, Wave Ventures is the largest student-run VC in Europe, backed by Nordic unicorn founders, investing in Gen Z entrepreneurs at the earliest stage. We operate both from Finland and Sweden with a team of five people from the top universities in the region.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Finland, Sweden, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.
- Daze — Daze provides a first-mile pickup service for e-commerce and recommerce.
- Synergi — Synergi app features smart charging, smart climate, solar charging, and more to help you use electricity when it's cheap and good for the planet. Start saving and earning with smart electricity use!
Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, Denmark, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- AISPECO — AISPECO systems for aerial inspection, surveying, mapping. Tailored for airplanes, helicopters and drones. Multiple camera and LiDAR options.
- Clair Scientific — CLAIR Z1 is a versatile microscope based on our patented bio imaging platform that is suitable for life science and nano science research
- Polku Therapeutics — Polku Therapeutics | Disease-Modifying Therapies for Neurodegeneration
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
- Biomatter — Biomatter Designs is pioneering the technologies for generative protein design at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI.
- Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.
PC Rettig & CO Impact
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- Mining, Robotics, 3D Printing
- Seed
- Finland
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- Hyperion Robotics — We are accelerating the transition to sustainable and automated construction with Concrete 3D Printing.
- Polar Night Energy — Polar Night Energy - Seasonal heat storage in district heating and industrial applications. The energy revolution is here.
Renaldas Zioma
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- Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Ukraine, Lithuania
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- #Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
- Zibra AI — Zibra Liquids is a real-time and cross-platform physically correct fluid simulation plugin for game developers
- Perfection42 — Perfection42 empowers creators to reach Unlimited Quality with custom Artificial intelligence tools without a single line of code.
Granström Mari is the Chief Science Activist at Origin by Ocean.
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- Biotechnology, Environmental Engineering
- Seed
- Finland
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- Origin by Ocean — We rid the oceans of harmful algae and turn it into everyday goods.
We at Taaleri Bioindustry systematically invest in the development and production of resource-efficient and sustainable materials on an industrial scale.
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- Chemical, Forestry, Construction
- Series A, Series B
- Finland
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- Enifer — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.
- C2CA technology — C2CA Technology is a pioneering company in concrete recycling, established in 2016 by Delft Enterprises, Delft University, and GBN.Our mission is to transform waste concrete into sustainable building materials, replacing virgin aggregates, sand, and cement to mitigate 8% of global CO2 emissions.Our advanced separation, and quality controltechnologies are in use at our demonstration site in Hoorn, the Netherlands.We're committed to achieving 100% circular concrete and building a more sustainable future. Join us and make a positive impact on the planet.
- Nordtreat — Nordtreat produces widely tested and certified flame retardants for wooden construction products. Learn more about environmentally friendly fire protection!
Mikko Rannila - Founding Partner @ Magnifier
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- CleanTech, Advanced Materials, Packaging Services
- Funding Round
- Finland
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- Woodly Oy — Woodly® is an entirely new type of wood-based packaging material that can be used to substitute traditional fossil-based plastics. Woodly is recyclable can be made into transparent and flexible packaging, and the material mimics the best qualities of traditional plastics.
Finow
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- Energy, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round
- Finland
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- Woodio — Woodio is a digital designing agency.
- Griffin Refineries — Griffin Refineries is a Finnish circular economy company that provides innovative waste management solutions globally.
Moomin Official Site: discover Moominvalley and the magical characters created by Tove Jansson. Get the latest Moomin news and stories.
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- Biotechnology, Environmental Engineering
- Seed
- Finland
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- Origin by Ocean — We rid the oceans of harmful algae and turn it into everyday goods.
Lakan Betoni is a building material company that produces concrete blocks, environmental concrete, ready-mix concrete, and dry mix products.
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- Industrial Manufacturing, Environmental Engineering
- Seed
- Finland
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- Carbonaide — Carbonaide provides award winning technology to utilize and store carbon dioxide in the precast concrete industry. Our mission is to turn concrete from a large emission source into a carbon sink.
European Circular Bioeconomy Fund invest and partner with entrepreneurs to accelerate late-stage circular bioeconomy companies.
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- Biotechnology, AgTech, Agriculture
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- The Netherlands, France, Italy
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- MOGU — By employing one of its finest technologies, mycelium, Mogu delivers responsible products for interior design. Mycelium design with Mogu.
- OroraTech — OroraTech provides global real-time information services. The first target market is early detection and monitoring of wildfires, extended by a proprietary constellation of thermal imaging nanosatellites equipped with in-space AI image processing. At the beginning of 2020, OroraTech launched an MVP called Wildfire Service (WFS) that enables quickdetection and monitoring of wildfires on a global scale. The combination of existing thermal-infrared satellite data with external data layers, such as fuel, wind, and risk maps results in an automatic generation of fire alerts and the display of current fire perimeters for users. The MVP was launched in early 2020 and has gained increasing traction with governmental and large corporate customers all over the world.
- watttron — Watttron invents a revolutionary heating system that can heat up surfaces heterogeneously.Watttron develops an innovative heating technology that can be used in various industrial processes. It is superior to current heating systems in many ways and offers a number of advantages. On the following pages, you will find information about possibleapplications and opportunities.The company is located in the Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Freital – a technology and start-up center on the outskirts of Dresden, the state capital of Saxony.
Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.
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- Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Norway, Singapore, Brazil
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- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
- Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
- Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.
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- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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- Qura — Qura builds AI to make legal text searchable using natural language.
- Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
- bunch — bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, handling digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration.Operating acrosslegal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.
Kiilto Ventures is a family-owned company. Kiilto invests strongly in growth and renewal, determined to keep on reinventing and challenging themselves beyond their present core business.
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- Construction, CRM, Hospital
- Funding Round, Seed
- Finland, Portugal
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- Delox — Delox is a spin-off of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL), whose goals consist in the design, development, and production of a vast portfolio of automatic biodecontamination robots. Target applications include the sterilization of medical devices in hospitals, health centers and field hospitals (for humanitarian missions,catastrophe situations, and war zones); room biodecontamination in hospitals, pharma, food industry and space; and laboratory equipment biodecontamination.
- Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
- Asumma Homes — Asumma Homes is a construction technology company that focuses on building a global brand in housing. It provides architectural design, configuration, customization, and construction engineering. Asumma Homes was founded in the year 2021.
Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, The Netherlands
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- Nest Wallet — Nest Wallet is a wallet created exclusively for traders, and all wallets are linked across mobile and extension.
- Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!
- PlayMakers — Capture, audit, and monetize user-generated content (UGC) in your game. Drive higher engagement, game longevity, and unlock monetization opportunities.
Aura Group is a financial services company operating out of Australia and Singapore that provides tailored wealth and funds management solutions across the Asia Pacific region. Our vision is to build trust that lasts generations.
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- iOS, Blockchain, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Australia, Finland
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- InStitchu — InStitchu is an online custom clothier specializing in tailor made menswear. Customers are able to design custom made garments online which are then made to their exact measurements.InStitchu provides tailor made, high quality menswear through a simple online ordering process. Once a customer has added measurements to their profile, a suit orshirt can be ordered in a few minutes and on its way in two weeks. There are multiple ways for a customer to get their measurements perfected and enjoy that “perfect fit” InStitchu customers keep coming back for - our measurement guide will take you on a journey from your living room to the hustle and bustle of our tailor’s studio. Customers can choose from a wide range of globally sourced high quality wool and cotton fabrics, and when you’ve chosen, we’ll deliver your design right to your door. This new approach to shopping is stress free and cuts out the middleman, allowing us to deliver customers luxury tailor made suits and shirts without the high price tag.
- Lygon — Lygon operates as a blockchain banking start-up. The Lygon platform is an industry solution that streamlines the bank guarantee process for everyone.
- Global Reviews — Prioritised, enterprise-wide decision making, based on digital intelligence and customer centric research. Learn how Global Reviews can help your business here.
GenZero is an investment platform company that aims to accelerate decarbonisation, for future generations towards a net zero world. Wholly-owned by Temasek, GenZero has a flexible investment approach and will invest globally across three focus areas: technology-based solutions, nature-based solutions as well as carbon ecosystem enablers. GenZero seeks to deliver positive climate impact alongside long term sustainable financial returns.
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- Fuel, Energy, Software
- Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Norway, Finland
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- Velocys — We provide the technology that enables sustainable, net negative carbon emissions fuel to be produced safely and effectively on a commercial scale.
- CleanJoule — CleanJoule is a pioneer SAF. CleanJoule is a dedicated and creative collection of engineers, scientists, and visionaries working to create a sustainable planet, reduce global carbon emissions, and ultimately combat climate change. CleanJoule's cutting-edge technology allows it to harness existing biomass energy and turn it intohigh-performance aviation fuel as well as carbon-negative bio-rubber that can be used in a variety of consumer and commercial products.
- Carbo Culture — We are a project developer with proprietary climate technology. We are building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution.
Invus recognizes that every company is unique and that extraordinary business performance cannot be achieved by following a formulaic approach. Due to their unique structure, they have a great deal of flexibility in the types of companies and situations where they can get involved.They know that real transformation takes time and that it is nevera straight line. They fully align their incentives with their partners and have the wherewithal and long-term commitment to see through any bumps along the way.They have been successfully empowering owner-managers since 1985. They have been reinvesting the same pool of money from the same group of European families (through their Artal investment vehicle) since their founding. Today they manage over $4 billion in an evergreen fund and work out of offices in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, France, China
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- Triveni Bio — Triveni Bio is pioneering a genetics-informed precision medicine approach to develop functional antibodies to treat immunological and inflammatory disorders.
- Engine Biosciences — We digitize and decipher complex biology with cutting-edge technologies to discover and develop life-changing medicines.
- GenSight Biologics — GenSight Biologics develops gene therapy-based treatments for retinal degenerative diseases. GenSight Biologics is a privately owned biopharmaceutical company, dedicated to the development and commercialization of gene therapy-based treatments of retinal degenerative diseases.Based on recent results obtained by the teams of its scientificfounders, the company develops innovative approaches to prevent retinal degeneration in selected pathological conditions and to restore vision in patients suffering from very low vision or blindness.
Jonathan Oppenheimer
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- Energy, Oil and Gas
- Seed
- Finland
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- Polar Night Energy — Polar Night Energy - Seasonal heat storage in district heating and industrial applications. The energy revolution is here.
2C Ventures is a cleantech venture capital firm that nurtures and fuels the growth of groundbreaking technologies. The company partners with visionary entrepreneurs, startups, and research pioneers who are leading the charge towards a greener and more sustainable future.
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- Energy, CleanTech, Clean Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
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- TheStorage — Flexible industrial heat electrification and scalable energy storage. TheStorage offers cost efficient, sustainable grid scale energy storage that can discharge heat, steam or CHP.
KIMPA - Impact Family Office aims to deploy the capital of its clients towards investment that offers a positive environmental and social impact on our planet.
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- Retail, Food and Beverage, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- France, Sweden, Germany
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- Greenly — With Greenly's Carbon Management's platform; measure, reduce, report and offset your carbon emissions for a cleaner future!
- WeDressFair — WeDressFair is a select-store of beautiful brands that place the respect of workers and the environment at the center.
- Carbo Culture — We are a project developer with proprietary climate technology. We are building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution.
Vesa Puttonen is a professor of finance from Finland.
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- CleanTech, Advanced Materials, Packaging Services
- Funding Round
- Finland
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- Woodly Oy — Woodly® is an entirely new type of wood-based packaging material that can be used to substitute traditional fossil-based plastics. Woodly is recyclable can be made into transparent and flexible packaging, and the material mimics the best qualities of traditional plastics.
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